Owl Babies

Name: William Joseph
Price range: $

by Martin Waddell, illustrated by Patrick Benson

Interest age: 3 to 7
Reading age: 6+

Published by Walker Books, 1994

Classics
Picture books

About this book

When three baby owls wake up to find their mother gone, they feel scared and vulnerable. But their anxieties soon prove unfounded by Mum's safe return. This reassuring and stunningly illustrated book tackles the subject of temporary separation - a situation which all children are likely to experience, be it Mum going to work or first day at Nursery. No father figure is mentioned.

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About the author

Martin was read to a lot as a child by people who knew how to read stories. These stories came alive, and the love of story has stayed with him ever since.

He lives where he lived as a child, and nearly all of his stories come from things that have happened to him there, at the foot of the Mountain of Mourne. He works in an old stone barn beside his home, and dreams stories in the garden and on long walks on the beach in front of the house. He never writes anywhere else. This is where he belongs.

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